Interception of migrants on the Moroccan/Spain border. (Photo: Beating Borders, 2014)"We are in Morocco Here, many Blacks have lost their lives Here, it's Boukhalef The Moroccans call us azzia They…
“When I heard I was coming to Hungary again, I was afraid,” says Yusra Mardini. The 19-year-old Syrian refugee spent time living on the streets of Budapest two summers ago en…
Nariman El-Mofty AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Edward Said dedicated his career to the theorising of Orientalism and to proving a point: the grouping of everyone non-European into the devalued category…
Hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba. AP Photo/Franklin Reyes. All rights reserved. In recent decades, progress in Latin American societies has been shifting the focus of public debate from the fight against…
Among the passengers crammed into the rattling white van traversing Lebanon’s northern edge were a pair of young Syrian refugees. As the van slowed to a stop at the first…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. #YoSoy132 Aguascalientes, 7 July 2012. Photo courtesy of the author.Today we cannot…
Disney World may be an American institution, but with one-day adult tickets costing on average between $105 and $201 (depending on ticket and time of year), millions of American families are…
Mikhail Gorbachev takes part on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, November 2014. Bernd…
Last year millennials finally surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. Now, as Generation Y ages, they’ve become more than one-third of the U.S. workforce. Soon they’ll be the…
Photographs of the victims are displayed at the Kafr Qassem Massacre Museum. Dylan Collins. All rights reserved.If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge, please excuse them. The…
Earlier this summer, Ryan O’Callaghan, a former offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots, came out as gay. O’Callaghan said he knew he was gay for much…
Activists protest against Presidential order to eliminate the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. New York, September 2017. Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reservedSalvadorans with TPS…